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US and UK Zombies Demand Top Dollar
coondoggie writes "Denizens of the malware underworld who sell access to compromised computers do so at varying rates depending on where the machines are located, researchers told the Usenix Security Symposium this week. The researchers followed what they called the pay-per-install (PPI) industry, which obtains infected machines from which malware can be launched and sells access to these machines to parties looking for someplace to execute malicious code. Sometimes the PPI sellers hire middlemen to supply the compromised machines, and the PPI dealer retails them."
Of course it costs more in the US & UK. It's to offset the standard of living (or rather the standard of being undead).
It's plain as day. WE NEED COMMUNISM NOW! You'd have to be blind not to see it.
Communist zombies? Those are slated for the sequel. Everyone knows you never put communist zombies in the first release.
Machines in UK and USA:
Anyone finds this surprising?
Why can't
There's nothing wrong with a zombie that a Remington 870 can't fix...be it computer or ex-human.
Disinfect the GNU General Public Virus!
How much does a US zombie go for? If I want to set up a couple VMs to be zombies, to whom do I talk to sell them?
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
"It should be the other way around; you are better off being undead in rural places, lots of brains available"
Following that logic Washington and Westminster should be the best places of all many brains, but as they belong to politicians, most would be hardly used and thus in "near perfect*" condition.
*Only missing the "integrity" centres.
I thought "US and UK Zombies Demand Top Dollar" meant that the next zombie blockbuster was to be filmed in Croatia
More music, fewer hits
Yeah, looking at how the world is running, brains have become a very rare and precious resource. Even the ones that have one don't use it too much lest it gets worn out.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
How can one determine if one's computer is a zombie?
(and please no "well if you run ANY form of windows, you definitely are one" comments)
Traditionally you would look for large amounts of outgoing traffic on the router when the system should be idle.
Don't know if I've run into any commie zombies, although a large collective collaborating to collect and process resources for the good of the community sounds about right... Now, Nazi zombies I can deliver.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Becuase it's worked so well everywhere it's been tried, right?
you don't even want to know what you'd have to pay in the US or UK for a reliable Ninja.
In fact, I was curious, and I went on a Google search.
Yes, freed from the dead hand of the outmoded capitalist system! Freed by the dead hand of COMMUNIST! bureaucracy! Huzzah!
You cannot prove that your computer is not a zombie. Consider the classic Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson.
Give me Classic Slashdot or give me death!
I saw one just the other day on the freeway on-ramp, holding a sign that said "Will work for BRAAAAAAINS!" The article must be talking about those exorbitant consultant zombies. Man, I'll never hire one of those again...talk about unimaginative business plans.
title on top and thought to myself: "Ah, the zombie apocalypse has finally happened, and slashdot has already found a boring story to write about it."
The lack of quality brains available in the US and UK means that a properly raised and fed zombie would be very expensive. It's all thanks to the prevalence of reality TV and crap like that. It's rotting brains so much that good brains are hard to come by.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Communist zombies? Those are slated for the sequel. Everyone knows you never put communist zombies in the first release.
"Workers of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your braaaaains..."
You want Communist Zombies? Here's your communist zombies.
Random Thoughts From A Diseased Mind (Not For Dummies)
Well, I thought my network was a zombie wasteland because all the clients were Windows machines, but actually it was just in Garland, TX.
the nature of paying more for zombies in certain areas has been known for years. This fact is not news.
Known to who?
Posting as AC here while hinting you are familiar with the market for zombies?
Priceless.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
Have you noticed how every attempt towards the "radiant future" has involved the mass starvation and murder of millions of people within the country at the hands of a government that is supposedly the "people's" government? And that "class struggle" was only ended by making everyone in the state poor, with the exception of those directly serving the state in some oppressive capacity by making them only slightly less poor; while at the same time those leading the state make themselves rich and corrupt to levels Nero could only have dreamed about? Yes, Communism promises to make everyone equal. But it is not brought about upon the back of the people, but rather on their corpses.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
If there is actually places where you can buy infected computers, why are not all the retailers rooted up and thrown directly into jail?